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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Polish people hear the word "Tartar," they:
(a) Want to eat fish.
(b) Know they need to go pay some taxes.
(c) Feel like dancing.
(d) Feel their the blood in their veins is going to freeze.

2. How old is the trumpeter when Poland is attacked?
(a) Nineteen or twenty.
(b) Ten or eleven.
(c) Thirty-nine or forty.
(d) Sixty.

3. Krakow welcomes which group of people?
(a) The villagers who stay to fight the Tartars.
(b) The Russians who are fleeing the Tartars.
(c) The people of Bulgaria who try to fight the Tartars.
(d) The Ukrainians who are fleeing the Tartars.

4. What is the name of the fortress and castle of the king of Poland on a hill above the Vistula River?
(a) Wawel.
(b) Cloth Hall.
(c) Mazovia.
(d) St. Ann.

5. What is the oath taken by the trumpeter?
(a) To warn the people inside the castle of the coming Tartars.
(b) To play the National Anthem every morning.
(c) To defend the country.
(d) To sound the trumpet each hour of the day and night until death.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the broken note first played?

2. In Chapter 2, whom does Pan Andrew say he has to come to see?

3. What heroic act does Joseph do while in the marketplace?

4. Where is the Charnetski family going with the caravan?

5. What does the stranger offer to buy from Pan Andrew Charnetski?

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